Haha! I wish I could accept!I nominate you to do a video, of your home theatre using an audio limiter and several movies. I have nominated you for the weekend to produce a video.
For copyright, time constraint and logistics reasons I probably shan't I'm afraid. It would be interesting though and I will try it in my studio for a laugh at some point in the future.
I would say, in fairness to your limiter approach, I did once mix a trailer that I had to limit the crap out for YouTube as there wasn't time to do a proper low dynamic mix. Although it was a bit crushed and flat sounding, I played it on a TV and kinda went "huh, that's not as bad as I thought it would be" soooo..... I'm not suggesting this as a workflow for cinema, but I do like the occasional reminder that maybe dynamics aren't as moving as directors and mixers like to pretend.
I didn't mention it in the previous post but a reason a simple limiter *doesn't* work for this use case is the interaction between channels. So -25dBfs might achieve the design goal in mono, in higher channel counts it would need to be keyed or have a floating threshold.
Anyway, I agree some things have gotten a bit silly. I do my best to keep levels sensible in my own work, but that's really all I can do at the moment. Maybe when I retire I'll have the time to pursue getting legislation passed....